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• Mystery of the Maya

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 128
  Complete the mysterious puzzle of Maya civilization in Mexico and Guatemala through cumulative discoveries from the history of Mayan archaeology. (36 min, 4 segments)
  1 day ago

• Sex and Sanctity: Eros Exhibition Bares All in Athens - Reading...

  
  Jockohomo Blood and Shaving Cream — Authority: 516
  Sex and Sanctity: Eros Exhibition Bares All in Athens - Reading the Guardian UK online I stumbled up the following; “From phallic lamps to erotic figures, a bawdy new exhibition depicting the sex lives of the ancient Greeks has opened at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. More than 270 objets d’art, some ...
  2 days ago

• Discoveries at Naqlun

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 540
  A mission from the Polish Center of the Mediterranean Archaeology of Warsaw University unearthed a decorated clay vessel from a room in the Deir Malak Gubrail monastery in Naqlun, a site in Fayoum. read more
  2 days ago

• An Archaeological Hannukah

  
  Jewlicious — Authority: 433
  75 inch tall menorah at Beit Shearim Leave it to the colonialist Israel Antiquities Authority (the vaunted IAA) to continue to play a role in the formation and enactment of Israel’s colonial-national historical imagination by presenting yet another of all the countless hard-to-refute archaeological findings that ...
  4 days ago

• The Rosetta Stone can be shared where it is

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Despite Egypts overtures, the British Museum is the artefacts natural home, suggests Roy Clare.
  6 days ago

• Egypt: World’s first international conference on repatriation of antiquities

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 131
  Egypt will host an international conference next March for countries seeking the return of ancient indigenous treasures being kept in foreign museums. The secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said the conference would be a world first. ”We expect around 12 countries to ...
  1 week ago

• Sweaty visitors spoiling King Tut’s tomb in Egypt

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, December 7 (ANI): Reports indicate that Egyptian King Tutankhamun’s underground tomb, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, is suffering from the wear and tear caused by tens of thousands of sweaty visitors who each year make a pilgrimage to the region.According to a report in The Independent, the visitors have ...
  1 week ago

• Egypt to formally request Britain to return the ancient Rosetta Stone

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Dec. 6 (ANI): Egypt is planning to formally request Britain to return the ancient Rosetta Stone, which helped to unlock the secrets of the pharaohs. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said he is preparing to “fight” for the restitution of the stone, which has been on display ...
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• Virtual Footsteps

  
  The Attic — Authority: 134
  Google has added Pompeii to its Streetview service. Apparently, you can also virtual-visit Stonehenge. Im very interested in visuality, especially of places, and Google Streetview to me is a fascinating meld of traditional cartography with filmic visuality, so that the mapped point of view becomes both omniscient and ...
  1 week ago

• Gimbutas’ Old Europe

  
  Slow Muse — Authority: 122
  Female Figurine (front and back), Cucuteni, Drăguşeni, 4050-3900 BC, Botoşani County Museum, Botoşani (Photo: Marius Amarie) Anthropomorphic Vessel, Gumelniţa, Sultana, 4600-3900 BC, National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest (Photo: Marius Amarie) John Noble Wilford has written a fascinating article ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?

  
  Chess, Goddess and Everything — Authority: 134
  From The Durango Herald2 plead guilty to theft of artifactsHerald Staff ReportArticle Last Updated; Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:00AMA Cortez man and a woman from Cañon City have pleaded guilty to illegally collecting archaeological artifacts in Canyon of the Ancients National Monument west of Cortez.Preston ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thee typer is for sale… maybe we could all pitch in…

  
  http://busterwantstofish.com/ — Authority: 118
  Cormac McCarthy’s Olivetti typer is going up for auction, so sayeth the NYTimes. They’re expecting to fetch 20K for the thing, which means we’d only have to sell 150,000 stickers… or something. Anyway, here’s the supa sweet money quote: Glenn Horowitz, a rare-book dealer who is handling the auction for ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Story of Maths: Ep.2 - The Genius of the East

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 128
  Episode 2 of the BBC documentary series The Story of Math gives due credit to the East - China, India and Arabia in the history of mathematics. (58 min, 6 segments)
  2 weeks ago

• Philosophy: Socrates on Self-Confidence

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 128
  This episode explores how Socrates concepts on the self-confidence, searching for truth and self-knowledge can affect us in the 21st Century. (24 min, 3 segments)
  2 weeks ago

• Global warming religion becoming a Joke

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 625
  Mischievous conservative writer Jonah Goldberg links to a British site that keeps a list of problems caused by Global Warming.Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, poppies more potent, Africa devastated,  Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, aggressive weeds, Air ...
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• Decision Rendered in ACCG FOIA Suit Against U.S. Department of State

  
  Numismatics and Archaeology — Authority: 394
  The litigious measures of the ACCG, and particularly its FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State with co-plaintiffs IAPN and PNG, have come up in discussion on this website before. A decision was delivered last Friday. David Gill delivered the first public comments (see " The ACCG, IAPN, and PNG FOIA Case: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Archaeological cemetery dating back to Romanian era unearthed in Syria

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 26 (ANI): The Syrian national archaeological team has unearthed an important and unique archaeological cemetery dating back to the Romanian era at the village of Ma’rin al-Jabal, southeast of the city of Hama in central Syria. According to a report in the Global Arab Network, Chairman of Hama ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Story of Maths: Ep.1 - The Language of the Universe

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 128
  In the first episode, The Story of Maths is the story of civilization, of human history starting with the need to quantify. (58 min, 6 segments)
  3 weeks ago

• The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw

  
  Pick of the Literate — Authority: 419
  The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw Move over Da Vinci Code, another new Vatican centric novel. Mix together a hidden secret, a rogue Cardinal, a world renowned linguist, a TV producer and a Russian cop and you get a mélange of excitement. A simple translation assignment thrusts a college professor into a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remains of Hammurabi seal discovered in Cairo

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 22 (ANI): An Austrian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a Hammurabi seal in Cairo, Egypt, which is made of burnt clay with inscriptions in cuneiform. The remains of the seal, found by the mission of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo and the Egyptology Institute of ...
  3 weeks ago

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